A Day for Cool and Curious Techie Stuff

BlogPulse is full of curious and interesting techie discoveries today, most of them interspered with news of MCI WorldCom head Bernard Ebbers' guilty verdict for fraud charges on Tuesday (burstiest person) and continued discussion of Judge Richard Kramer's decision this week that found California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.

First cool discovery is Amaztype (today's No. 5 top link), which lets you search through the Amazon.com database in a very graphical, beeping and techno way. Give it a whirl.

Second cool discovery probably isn't all that new, but Skype is getting more and more attention as a Free Internet phone service.

Third cool discovery isn't highly recommended, but Command Tab (specializing in Macs and geekery) offers instructions for adding a 40G Toshiba hard drive to an iPod that was dropped on the floor and went kaput.

Having trouble solving Rubik's cube? Let Legos do it. (That's the No. 4 cool discovery).

And the final cool discovery comes from a Wired story about the "building in a bag" created by London engineers. Click on the image on the left to see what it looks like.

But wait! There's more....such as A9's new open search feature and step-by-step instructions on colorizing your own images/movies.

In a little bit of blogger trickery, bloggers are trying to push Wikipedia to the top search term for "online poker" as their way of fighting spam.

And for those who need some news to make their tax-paying stomachs churn yet again, the Houston Chronicle reports that Haliburton subsidiary KBR charged the Pentagon $27.5 million (with an M) to rush-deliver $82,100 of cooking and heating fuel to Iraq. Their version of "overnight shipping" charges, we presume?

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Enough talk about today's President. How do the country's living ex-Presidents stack up?